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Custom Trace Listern for EntLib

why reinvent the wheel and create this custom trace listner?
the current custom trace listerner in the documentation uses debug .write, which doesn't work in the "release" mode.
I would like to show trace message to debugview even in release mode.
OutputDebugString do the magic, see the code below

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging;


namespace TareqCo.Framework.Logging
{
   [ConfigurationElementType(typeof(CustomTraceListenerData))]
   public class DebugTraceListener:Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.TraceListeners.CustomTraceListener
   {
        [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
        public static extern void OutputDebugStringA(string message);

       public override void TraceData(TraceEventCache eventCache, string source, TraceEventType eventType, int id, object data)
       {
           if (data is LogEntry && this.Formatter != null)
           {
               this.WriteLine(this.Formatter.Format(data as LogEntry));
           }
           else
           {
               this.WriteLine(data.ToString());
           }
       }

       public override void Write(string message)
       {
           OutputDebugStringA(message);
       }

       public override void WriteLine(string message)
       {
           OutputDebugStringA(message);
       }

   }
}